The average age of first marriages in China in 2020 was 28.67, which was 3.78 years older than that in 2010. Professor Ren Yuan of the population research institute of Fudan University was quoted by Yicai.com as saying that the age of first marriages is affected by a variety of factors.
Similarly, in Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Principe, children can marry at the age of 14 with their parents' consent but have to wait until they are 18 otherwise.
From the mid-1970s until 2018 there was a steady and ongoing increase in the median age of men and women at first marriage. This upward trend halted between 2018 and 2020 but continued again in 2021. In 2021 the median age of men was 30.8 years, and women 29.4 years.
As shown in Figure 2, the marriage duration of 15-year-old men and women gradually extended from 40.28 and 40.89 years in 1982 to 44.73 and 47.84 years in 2015, respectively.
The number of marriages in China last year dropped to 6.83 million, the lowest since records began in 1986. Data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs showed the number of couples tying the knot in 2022 fell by about 800,000 compared with 2021, beating that year's record low.
Research shows, for example, that urban residents experience higher divorce rates than those living in rural areas, and that China's urbanisation drive is partly behind its rising divorce rates. As for gender differences, men and women today stand on a more equal footing when it comes to divorce.
China Population: Divorce Rate data was reported at 0.200 % in 2021.
The divorce rate in China soared from around 0.96 divorces per 1,000 people in 2000 to 3.36 divorces in 2019. This is a quite high value compared to the divorce rate of countries in the Asia Pacific region.
However, Portugal tops the list of countries with the highest number of divorce cases followed by Spain, Luxembourg, and Russia. Egypt and South Africa are the only African countries mentioned in the study with both countries on 17 percent, 17% rates respectively.
Italy. Perhaps it's the irresistible romance of the place that means couples stay married for an average of 18 years - according to the Economist, this is longer than any other country evaluated.
The crude divorce rate (divorces per 1,000 Australian residents) was 2.2 divorces per 1,000 residents in 2021, up from 1.9 in 2020. The total number of divorces granted in 2021 was 56,244, the highest number of divorces recorded since 1976.
Men and women in Japan are getting married increasingly later than previous generations. In 2020, the average age of women who marry for the first time was 29.4 years, while men were on average 31 years old when they first got married.
For women in the age group 20–49 years, the median age of marriage improved from 16.2 years in 1992–93 to 19.2 years in the year 2019–21. Similar patterns were observed in the median age at marriage for women aged 25–49 years.
Forced marriage is common in Niger. Niger has the highest prevalence of child marriage in the world; and also the highest total fertility rate. Girls who attempt to leave forced marriages are most often rejected by their families and are often forced to enter prostitution in order to survive.
in Muslim contexts
❖ Setting the minimum age of marriage at 18 is 'un-Islamic' because it goes against the practice of the Prophet Muhammad, who married Aishah when she was six years old, and consummated the marriage when she reached puberty at the age of nine.
Vatican City is a Catholic-run city-state governed by the Pope. Deeply Catholic as it is, it does not allow citizens to divorce. Surprising very few people. The Vatican is the smallest country in the world, covering approximately 100 acres with a permanent population of 842 all-Catholic residents.
Vietnam possesses the lowest divorce rate in the world, at 0.2 per 1,000 people. This is an impressive feat for a country with a population of over 97 million, as it indicates that couples in the region are more likely to stay together than those living elsewhere in the world.
Slovenia. Slovenia is one of the easiest countries in the world to file for divorce, due to its employment of a no-fault system, allowing couples to file for divorce without citing a reason they would need to prove.
Rural men of marriageable age are having difficulties to find a spouse which is an increasingly visible problem in today's Chinese society, demographers and marriage experts found. China's latest national population census shows that there are 17.52 million more men of marriageable age between 20 and 40 than women.
The drop in couples tieing the knot, which follows pandemic restrictions keeping tens of millions locked in their homes or compounds for weeks last year, comes as authorities deal with a declining birth rate and a falling population.
Another group that shows a strong reluctance to marry is young people living in wealthier areas. According to the report, China's lowest marriage rates are found in the more economically developed Shanghai and neighboring Zhejiang province. Marriage skeptics cited worries about both personal and financial costs.
Traditional Chinese culture frowned on divorce. An ancient proverb admonishes newlyweds: "You are married until your hair turns white." In practice, of course, men played a more dominant role in Chinese families and got away with most things, including marital dalliances.
More than 70 percent of divorces in China are initiated by women.
In 2001, the Chinese government removed a definition from the country's marriage law that made it illegal for a man and a woman to live together outside of marriage. Today, the practice is only against the law when one or both cohabitants are already married to another person.